"[On film executive Nat Cohen, then responsible (according to his rivals) for about 50% of film production in the UK] I found Nat very kind and helpful. [...] [A] lot of things went wrong in those films and I realise it now. I saw this but he didn't say a word and allowed me to finish. That's on a personal level. On a different level I find Nat's position in the film industry very disturbing. He has too much control over it. Do you know how he works? Every morning he studies the box office receipts and sees which films are making money and concentrates on those. So, slowly, the spectrum is becoming narrower and narrower."
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Cohen's company Anglo-Amalgamated was involved in the production of Loach's films Poor Cow (1967) and (by then known as Anglo-EMI) Family Life (1971). An effective distribution/exhibition duopoly existed in the UK between the film divisions of EMI and the Rank Organisation at this time.
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